trumpet call

A call by sound of trumpet. "Then loudly rung the trumpet - call: Thundered the cannon from the wall." Scott: Marmion, i. 31. *trumpet-clangor, s. The sound of trumpets. "There roared the sea, and trumpet - clangor sounds." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . II ., v. 5. trumpet-fish, s . [SNIPE-FISH.] trumpet-flourish, s. A trumpet-call. "For shrill the trumpet -flourish fell Upon his ear, like pa ing bell." Scott: Bridal of Trier main, ii. 22. trumpet-flower, s. Bot.: Any plant with large tubular flowers; specially: (1) The genus Bignonia (q.v.); (2) the genus Tecoma (q. v.). ftrumpet-fly, s. Entom.: The Gray-fly ( Estrus ovis). trumpet-honeysuckle, s. IMG:content-1495.png:[blocks in formation] blaze or noise abroad; to proclaim. 2. To praise extravagantly. B. In trans.: To make a loud, ringing sound like a trumpet. (Used especially of the loud sound made by an elephant.) truncatus=truncated (q. v.).] Zool.: Looping-snail; a genus of Littorinide ( Woodward ), of Aciculide species Truncated Roof. trumpet; -er.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who sounds or blows a trumpet. "Heralds and trumpeters were sent to summon the Castle in form."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xiii. 2. One who proclaims, publishes, or noises any thing abroad; one who denounces; often now one who publishes the praise of himself or another. II. Technically : 1. Ichthy.: Latris hecateia, one of the most important food-fishes of the southern hemisphere. It anges from thirty to sixty pounds in weight, and is considered by the colonists the best flavored of any of the fishes of New Zealand, Tasmania, and South Australia. Large numbers are smoked and sent into the interior. 2. Ornith .: Any species of the genus Psophia (q. v.). They are South American birds, allied to the Crane, inhabiting the forests, frequenting the ground in search of grain for food, and often betray. ing their presence by their loud call, whence both their popular and scientific names are derived. The best known species, Psophia crepitans , is very beautiful. The breast is adorned with brilliant changing blue and purple feathers, with metallic luster; head and neck like velvet; wings and back gray, and belly black. They run with great swiftne , and are capable of domestication, attending their master in his walks with as much apparent affection as his dog. They have no spurs, but such is their high spirit and activity, that they browbeat every dunghill fowl in the yard, and force the Guinea birds, dogs, and turkeys to own their trumpet-major, 8. Mil.: A head-trumpeter in a band or regiment. trumpet-marine, s. Music: An instrument formed of a triangular chest, over one side of which is stretched a thick gut string, pa ing over a bridge slightly uneven on its feet, one side being fastened and the other free. When the string is set in vibration by means of a bow, the rapid impact of the loose foot of the bridge on the belly slightly checks the vibration and causes the sound to resemble that of a violin. trumpet-shaped, s. 1. Ord . Lang .: Shaped like a trumpet. 2. Bot .: Hollow and dilated at one extremity like the end of a trumpet, as the corolla of Caprifolium sempervirens. trumpet-shell, s. *trumpet-tongued, a. Proclaiming loudly, as with the voice of a trumpet. "So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet - tongued , against The deep damnation of his taking off." IMG:content-1496.png:[blocks in formation]